Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	covenant_n	jesus_n	mediator_n	2,510	5	10.2708	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50177	The wonders of the invisible world observations as well historical as theological upon the nature, the number and the operations of the devils : accompany'd with I. Some accounts of the greievous [sic] molestations by daemons and witchcrafts ... and the trials of some eminent malefactors ... II. Some councils directing a due improvement of the terrible things lately done by the unusual and amazing range of evil spirits ... III. Some conjectures upon the great events likely to befall the world in general and New England in particular ... IV. A short narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of witches in Swedeland ... V. The devil discovered, in a brief discourse upon those temptations which are the more ordinary devices of the wicked one / by Cotton Mather.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1693 (1693)	Wing M1173; ESTC R26804	73,780	138

Fault In the mean time We have no Bowels in us if we do not Compassionate the Distressed County of Essex now crying to all these Colonies Have pitty on me O ye my Friends Have pitty on me for the Hand of the Lord has Touched me and the Wrath of the Devil has been therewithal turned upon me But indeed if an hearty pitty be due to any I am sure the Difficulties which attend our Honourable Iudges doe demand no Inconsiderable share in that Pitty What a Difficult what an Arduous Task have those Worthy Personages now upon their Hands To carry the Knife so exactly that on the one side there may be no Innocent Blood Shed by too unseeing a Zeal for the Children of Israel and that on the other side there may be no Shelter given to those Diabolical Works of Darkness without the Removal whereof we never shall have Peace or fo those Furies whereof several have kill'd more people perhaps than would serve to make a Village Hic Labor Hoc Opus est O what need have we to ●…be concerned that the Sins of our Israel may not provoke the God of Heaven to leave his Davids unto a wrong Step in a matter of such Consequence as is now before them Our Disingenuous Uncharitable Unchristian Reproching of such Faithful Men after all The Prayers and Supplications with strong Crying and Tears with which we are daily plying the Throne of Grace that they may be kept from what They Fear is none of the way for our preventing of what We Fear Nor all this while ought our Pitty to forget such Accused ones as call for indeed our most Compassionate Pitty till there be fuller Evidences that they are less worthy of it If Satan have any where maliciously brought upon the Stage those that have hitherto had a just and good stock of Reputation for their just and good Living among us If the Evil One have obtained a permission to Appear in the Figure of such as we have cause to think have hitherto Abstained even from the Appearance of Evil It is in Truth such an Invasion upon Mankind as may well Raise an Horror in us all But O what Compassions are due to such as may come under such Misrepresentations of the Great Accuser Who of us can say what may be shown in the Glasses of the Great Lying Spirit Altho' the Usual Providence of God we praise Him keeps us from such a Mishap yet where have we an Absolute Promise that we shall every one alwayes be kept from it As long as Charity is bound to Think no Evil it will not Hurt us that are Private Persons to forbear the Iudgment which belongs not unto us Let it rather be our Wish May the Lord help them to Learn the Lessons for which they are now put unto so hard a School VI. With a Great Zeal we should lay hold on the Covenant of God that we may Secure Us and Ours from the Great Wrath with which the Devil Rages Let us come into the Covenant of Grace and then we shall not be hook'd into a Covenant with the Devil nor be altogether unfurnished with armour against the Wretches that are in that Covenant Theway to come under the Saving Influences of the New Cove●…ant is to close with the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Allsufficient Mediator of it Let us therefore do that by Resigning up ourselves unto the Saving Teaching and Ruling Hands of this Blessed Mediator Then we shall be what we read in Jude 1. Preserved in Christ Iesus That is as the Destroying Angel could not meddle with such as had been distinguished by the Blood of the Passeover on their Houses Thus the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ Sprinkled on our Souls will Preserve us from the Devil The Birds of prey and indeed the Devils most literally in the shape of great Birds are flying about Would we find a Covert from these Vultures Let us then Hear Our Lord Jesus from Heaven Clocqing unto us O that you would be gathered under my Wings Well When this is done Then let us own the Covenant which we are now come into by joining ourselves to a Particular Church walking in the Order of the Gospel at the doing whereof according to that Covenant of God We give up Ourselves unto the Lord and in Him unto One Another While others have had their Names Entred in the Devils Book let our Names be found in the Church Book and let us be Written among the Living in Ierusalem By no means let Church-Work sink and fail in the midst of us but let the Tragical Accidents which now happen exceedingly Quicken that Work So many of the Rising Generation utterly forgetting the Errand of our Fathers to build Churches in this Wilderness and so many of Our Cottages being allow'd to Live where they do not and perhaps cannot wait upon God with the Churches of His People t is as likely as any one thing to procure the swarmings of Witch-crafts among us But it becomes us with a like Ardour to bring our poor Children with us as we shall do when we come ourselves into the Covenant of God It would break an heart of Stone to have seen what I have lately seen Even poor Children of several Ages even from seven to twenty more or less Confessing their Familiarity with Devils but at the same time in Doleful bitter Lamentations that made a Little Pour traiture of Hell it self Expostulating with their execrable Parents for Devoting them to the Devil in their Infancy and so Entailing of Devillism upon them Now as the Psalmist could say My Zeal hath Consumed me because my Enemies have forgotten thy Words Even so let the nefarious wickedness of those that have Explicitly dedicated their Children to the Devil even with Devillish Symbols of such a Dedication Provoke our Zeal to have our Children Sincerely Signally and openly Consecrated unto God with an Education afterwards assuring and confirming that Consecration VII Let our Prayer Go up with Great Faith against the Devil that comes down in Great Wrath. Such is the Antipathy of the Devil to our Prayer that he cannot bear to stay long where much of it is indeed it is Diaboli Flagellum as well as Miseriae Remedium the Devil will soon be Scourg'd out of the Lords Temple by a Whip made and used with the Effectual Fervent Prayer of Righteous Men. When the Devil by Afflicting of us drives us to our Prayers he is The Fool making a Whip for his own Back Our Lord said of the Devil in Mat. 17. 21. This Kind goes not out but by Prayer and Fasting But Prayer and Fasting will soon make the Devil be gone Here are Charms indeed Sacred and Blessed Charms which the Devil cannot stand before A Promise of God being well managed in the Hands of them that are much upon their Knees will so Resist the Devil that he will Flee from us At every other Weapon the Devils will be too hard